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  • Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia

    Series series Peopling of the Americas Publications
    Despite the obvious geographic importance of eastern Asia in human migration, its discussion in the context of the emergence and dispersal of modern humans has been rare. Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia focuses long-overdue scholarly attention on this under-studied area of the world.Arising from a 2011 symposium sponsored by the National Museum of Nature and ... Leer más

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  • Curious Behavior

    Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond

    Provine boldly goes where other scientists seldom tread—in search of hiccups, coughs, yawns, sneezes, and other lowly, undignified, human behaviors. Our earthiest instinctive acts bear the imprint of our evolutionary origins and can be valuable tools for understanding how the human brain works and what makes us different from other species. ... Leer más

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  • Perfect Order

    Recognizing Complexity in Bali

    Series series Princeton Studies in Complexity
    Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds. Although each group focuses on its own problems, a global solution nonetheless emerges that optimizes irrigation ... Leer más

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  • The Interview

    An Ethnographic Approach

    Edición de Jonathan Skinner ...
    Series series ASA Monographs
    What are new interview methods and practices in our new 'interview society' and how do they relate to traditional social science research? This volume interrogates the interview as understood, used - and under-used - by anthropologists. It puts the interview itself in the hotseat by exploring the nature of the interview, interview techniques, and illustrative cases of interview use.What is a ... Leer más

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  • The Evolution of Human Co-operation

    Ritual and Social Complexity in Stateless Societies

    How do people living in small groups without money, markets, police and rigid social classes develop norms of economic and social cooperation that are sustainable over time? This book addresses this fundamental question and explains the origin, structure and spread of stateless societies. Using insights from game theory, ethnography and archaeology, Stanish shows how ritual - broadly defined - is ... Leer más

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  • Race?

    Debunking a Scientific Myth

    Series Libro 15 - Texas A&M University Anthropology Series
    Race has provided the rationale and excuse for some of the worst atrocities in human history. Yet, according to many biologists, physical anthropologists, and geneticists, there is no valid scientific justification for the concept of race.To be more precise, although there is clearly some physical basis for the variations that underlie perceptions of race, clear boundaries among “races” remain ... Leer más

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  • Sex, Love and DNA

    What Molecular Biology Teaches Us About Being Human

    Can 21st-century molecular biology answer age-old questions about the human experience? Can studying proteins and DNA help us understand how we make our choices in sex and love? How we communicate? Where our emotions come from? Or why we age and die?......... In this fascinating journey into the biology of cells, scientist and educator Peter Schattner explains how proteins and DNA affect our lives ... Leer más

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  • Extractive Industries and Ape Conservation

    Series series State of the Apes
    Current dominant thinking and practice in the private and public sectors asserts that peoples' development needs are in conflict with, or mutually exclusive to, the need to conserve the biosphere on which we depend. Consequently, we are asked to either diminish development in the name of conservation or diminish conservation in the name of development. Efforts to identify complementary objectives, ... Leer más

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  • Bigfoot Exposed

    An Anthropologist Examines America's Enduring Legend

    The myth of Bigfoot has captured the popular imagination since the creature's first public debut in 1958-numerous citations of 'evidence,' newspaper articles, books, hysterical personal accounts, and even Hollywood movies illustrate the American public's enduring romance with the Sasquatch. The scientific community on the whole, however, has stubbornly refused to comment on what it views as a very ... Leer más

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  • For Love of the Prophet

    An Ethnography of Sudan's Islamic State

    de Noah Salomon ...
    For some, the idea of an Islamic state serves to fulfill aspirations for cultural sovereignty and new forms of ethical political practice. For others, it violates the proper domains of both religion and politics. Yet, while there has been much discussion of the idea and ideals of the Islamic state, its possibilities and impossibilities, surprisingly little has been written about how this political ... Leer más

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  • Health, Culture and Society

    Conceptual Legacies and Contemporary Applications

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book traces the history of formative, enduring concepts, foundational in the development of the health disciplines. It explores existing literature, and subsequent contested applications. Feminist legacies are discussed with a clear message that early sociological and anthropological theories and debates remain valuable to scholars today. Chapters cover historical events and cultural ... Leer más

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  • After Rape

    Violence, Justice, and Social Harmony in Uganda

    de Holly Porter ...
    Series Libro 53 - The International African Library
    Following the ICC intervention in 2005, northern Uganda has been at the heart of international justice debates. The emergent controversy, however, missed crucial aspects of Acholi realities: that the primary moral imperative in the wake of wrongdoing was not punishment but, instead, the restoration of social harmony. Drawing upon abundant fieldwork and in-depth interviews with almost 200 women, ... Leer más

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